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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784712503321

Titolo

Faith and narrative [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Keith E. Yandell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

0-19-773910-5

1-280-47273-1

0-19-535128-2

1-4237-5758-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

YandellKeith E. <1938->

Disciplina

121/.68

Soggetti

Storytelling - Religious aspects

Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1 ""They Stooped to Conquer"": Cultural Vitality and the Narrative Impulse; 2 Gnosis, Narrative, and the Occasion of Repentance; 3 The Scandal of Revelation; 4 Second-Person Accounts and the Problem of Evil; 5 Social Transformation as Return of Story Tradition; 6 Anecdote as the Essence of Historical Understanding; 7 Hagiography and Hindu Historical Consciousness; 8 Narrative and Theological Aspects of Freudian and Jungian Psychology; 9 Words, Deeds, and Words about Deeds; 10 Narrative Theology from an Evangelical Perspective; 11 Living within a Text

12 The Limits of Narrative Theology13 Narrative Ethics and Normative Objectivity; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

The importance of narrative to ethics and religion is a pervasive theme in several scholarly disciplines. In the essays presented here, distinguished scholars address a range of issues associated with this theme, focussing especially on questions concerning narrative's contribution to knowledge.